The Epoch of the Mammoth and the Apparition of Man Upon the EarthJ. B. Lippincott & Company, 1878 - 430 pages |
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The Epoch of the Mammoth and the Apparition of Man Upon the Earth James Cocke Southall Affichage du livre entier - 1878 |
The Epoch of the Mammoth and the Apparition of Man Upon the Earth James Cocke Southall Affichage du livre entier - 1878 |
The Epoch of the Mammoth and the Apparition of Man Upon the Earth James Cocke Southall Affichage du livre entier - 1878 |
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ancient antiquity appears Arcelin archæologists arrow-heads Asia axes Babylonia beach belong bones Boucher de Perthes Bronze Age cave-bear cave-lion cavern caves celts century civilisation coast copper Dawkins Denmark deposits depth discovery drift earth Egypt elephant epoch Europe evidence excavations existence extinct animals fact fauna feet flint flint implements fragments France Gallo-Roman geological Glacial Age gravel hatchets horse human hyæna inches Indians inhabitants Irish elk iron island knives Lake lake-dwellings lance-heads mammoth mastodon Matériaux mentioned metal metres miles Neolithic Age North Northern objects observed occur Palæolithic Age peat Pliocene Polished Stone pottery Pre-historic present Professor race recent region reindeer relic-beds relics remains remarks rhinoceros river river-gravels Roman rude sand says Schliemann Scotland shell-mounds shore Siberia Sir Charles Lyell Sir John Lubbock skeleton skull Solutré Somme Valley stalagmite station Stone Age stone implements surface swords tion told tombs traces tribes tumuli weapons
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Page 91 - Nibelunge," such as it was written down at the end of the twelfth, or the beginning of the thirteenth century, is
Page 83 - Europe; our nearest relatives in the animal kingdom are confined to hot, almost to tropical climates, and it is in such countries that we are most likely to find the earliest traces of the human race.
Page 187 - Behold, he drinketh up a river, and hasteth not; he trusteth that he can draw up Jordan into his mouth.
Page 81 - There can be no doubt that, as Professor Schaaffhausen and Mr. Busk have stated, this skull is the most brutal of all known human skulls, resembling those of the apes not only in the prodigious development of the superciliary prominences and the forward extension of the orbits, but still more in the depressed form of the brain-case, in the straightness of the squamosal suture, and in the complete retreat of the occiput forward and upward, from the superior occipital ridges.
Page 327 - At the first glance they appear to have been well preserved by the earth, but on digging them up they are found -to be in a thorough state of decay. On being lighted they glow, but never emit a flame ; nevertheless, the inhabitants of the neighbourhood use them as fuel, and designate these subterranean trees as Adamovshtshina, or of Adam's time.
Page 129 - Frestwich concluded by observing that — " For these and various other reasons I am confirmed in the opinion I expressed in 1859, that the evidence, as it stood, seemed to me as much to necessitate the bringing forward of the extinct animals towards our own time, as the carrying back of man in geological time.
Page 338 - Scotch boulder-clay, as both these quadrupeds are known to have been contemporary with Man, favours the idea which I have already expressed, that the close of the glacial period in the Grampians may have coincided in time with the existence of Man in those parts of Europe where the climate was less severe, as, for example, in the basins of the Thames, Somme, and Seine, in which the bones of many extinct mammalia are associated with flint implements of the antique type.
Page 81 - And assuredly, there is no mark of degradation about any part of its structure. It is, in fact, a fair average human skull, which might have belonged to a philosopher, or might have contained the thoughtless brains of a savage.
Page 371 - The recession in that time was 906 feet, or an average of 5'15 feet per year. The time needed at that rate to recede from Fort Snelling would be 8202 years. " Between Hennepin and Carver are eighty-six years. The amount of recession was about 300 feet or 349 feet per year.
Page 388 - Thus, then, with these carefully-observed computations before us, we are not prepared to accept the high antiquity assigned by Dr. Dowler to the human remains found beneath the surface at New Orleans. What he regards as four buried forests which once flourished on the spot, may be nothing more than driftwood brought down the river in former times which became embedded in the silts and sediments which were deposited on what was then the floor of the Gulf.